MEXICO CITY.- A very Mexican saying goes that, ‘for the wedge to tighten, it has to be of the same suit’. And at the Alfredo Harp Helú Stadium in Mexico City, the Dominican Robinson Canó fulfilled this assignment to the letter.
Canó, champion with the New York Yankees in the 2009 season of the Big leagues and brand new reinforcement of the Red Devils of Mexico, hit a solo home run throughout right field in the fourth inning, scored two runs and drove in, to lead the ‘pingos’ to a 4-3 victory over the ‘Bronx Bombers’, in the first of two exhibition games between the winningest teams in the Major Leagues and the Mexican Baseball League.
In his second at-bat of the game, after grounding into a double play in the opening chapter, Canó asserted himself and sent a pitch from left-handed Tanner Tully, the New Yorkers’ starter, over the right field wall to break the lead. which until then was a pitching duel between Tully himself and Trevor Bauer, a former major leaguer recently signed by the scarlet team, and causing the uproar of the more than 19 thousand fans who gathered at ‘Hell’ to explode.
Bauer, who lived his best years in Major League Baseball (MLB) with Cleveland before moving to the Dodgers of Los Angeles, a team that released him due to an accusation of domestic violence, kept the Yankees at bay during the first three innings, in which he allowed four hits and walked two, but He hung zero on the board and struck out two, one of them to the fearsome Giancarlo Stantonthe most recognizable face among the players from the New York team who made the trip to Mexico.
His most pressing moment came in the third inning, when he allowed consecutive singles by Venezuelan Oswaldo Cabrera and Dominican Óscar González, which was followed by a wild pitch that moved Cabrera to third base; However, Bauer struck out José Rojas and then forced José Treviño to ground out to shortstop, where Juan Carlos Gamboa fielded and Canó put the final out at second base.
Conner Menez, Edwin Fierro and Michael Mariot extended the home team’s shutout by working one frame each, before Canó appeared again in a stellar way to extend the Red Devils’ advantage in the bottom of the sixth episode. The Dominican led off with a double to left field, which was followed by a single by José Rondón, before the veteran came to the plate at 2-0 on a busy ball by Japhet Amador, which moved Rondón to second base, from where He scored 3-0 with an RBI single by Aristides Aquino.
The Yankees seemed to react to the serpentine of Alex Claudio, who got into trouble in the seventh inning when, with two out, he allowed a single by Anthony Volpe and walked JC Escarra; However, Jake Sánchez revealed it to strike out Venezuelan Carlos Narváez and put an end to the visiting threat.
In the bottom of the seventh inning, The Mexican Víctor González took the mound for the ‘Manhattan Mules’ to a scandalous ovation, that he knew how to recognize one of his best exponents in the Major Leagues; However, after striking out Julio Ornelas and retiring Xavier Fernández, un error de Max Burt, who threw high to first base after fielding a grounder by Gamboa, He put the Nayarit in trouble, who gave up singles to Franklin Barreto and Canó, who thus drove in his second run of the game, scored by Gamboa to make it 4-0.
In the ninth inning, Ofreidy Gómez came in to relieve Sánchez and with two outs he seemed to have everything under control, but after hitting Greg Allen and accepting a single from Jared Serna, Venezuelan Narváez hit a double off the third base line to break the Yankees’ zero and make the score 4-2, which was followed by another double, now from Cole Gabrielson, who brought the ‘Manhattan Mules’ closer to 4-3 in the spikes of Serna.
After a dialogue on the mound between manager Lorenzo Bundy and the box with Gómez, he finally struck out José Rojas to get the 27th out and seal the victory for the Red Devils.
Menez scored the victory with an inning of work in which he only allowed one hit, while Tully took the loss, after spacing four hits and one run, with a strikeout, in four and a third innings of work.
This Monday, the Yankees and the Red Devils will meet again at the Alfredo Harp Helú Stadium at 6:00 p.m. local time (7:00 p.m. ET). Dominican Dennis Santana is announced to start for the New Yorkers, while the Scarlets had not announced who would take the mound at the time of going to press.
Yankees 3-4 Red Devils
CHE Team
New York 3 12 1
Mexico 4 10 0
Won: Conner Menez (1-0)
Lost: Tanner Tully (0-1)
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2024-03-25 03:11:51
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